Anodea Judith (born Judith Ann Mull, December 1, 1952,
Elyria, Ohio[1]) is an American author, therapist, and public speaker on the
chakra system,
bodymind (
body/
mind integration),
somatictherapy, and
yoga. Judith is the author of Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System. She has maintained a private practice for over twenty years and presents workshops nationally and internationally at holistic retreat centers, yoga studios,
Neo-Pagan and
New Age events and training institutes. She is a past president of the
Church of All Worlds (1986–1993),[1] a founder of Lifeways, a school for the study of the healing and
magical arts (1983), and a founding member of
Forever Forests.[1] She is on the faculty of
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health,[2] and she is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, a teaching organization focusing on Chakra studies.[3] She has a son named Alex, and one of her brothers is actor and singer-songwriter
Martin Mull.[1]
Education and training
Judith's academic background includes a master's degree in
clinical psychology from Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Therapy and a doctorate in Health and Human Services (focused on mind-body health) from
Columbia Pacific University (an unaccredited, though state-certified, nontraditional distance learning school in California).[1] Judith's studies in healing have included
bioenergetics, psychology,
psychotherapy, mythology, sociology, history, systems theory, and mystic spirituality.[3] She is also an authority on
chakras and yoga and somatic therapy.[4][5] Her
shamanic spiritual training led to ordination in 1985 through the Church of All Worlds, where she was a High Priestess for ten years.[1]
Awards
Judith's book Waking the Global Heart: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love was the winner of the 2007 Nautilus Book Award Best Book of the year for Social Change and of the 2007 Independent Publisher Award Silver Medal for Mind/ Body Spirit.[6]
2006 – Waking the Global Heart: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love. Elite Books,
ISBN0-9720028-9-8,
ISBN978-0-9720028-9-9
2012 – Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras. (with Lion Goodman) Sounds True,
ISBN1604078529,
ISBN978-1604078527
Audio
The Chakra System: A Complete Course in Self-Diagnosis and Healing. – Six-tape audio course (
Sounds True, 2000)
Wheels of Life: A Journey Through the Chakras. – With Rick Hamouris (Cassette) (ACE/Llewellyn Collection, 1987)
ISBN1-59157-001-8; also released by same publisher on CD in 1992 with
ISBN1-59157-000-X
Bond, Lawrence &
Ellen Evert Hopman (1996) People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out. (reissued as Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans & Witches Today in 2002 Destiny Books
ISBN0-89281-904-9) Interview.
Carol, Shawna (2003) The Way of Song: A Guide to Freeing the Voice and Sounding the Spirit. St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN0-312-31037-4,
ISBN978-0-312-31037-0
Collins, Cynthia Jane & Jane Raeburn (2002) Building a Magickal Relationship: The Five Points of Love. C Trade Paper
ISBN0-8065-2306-9,
ISBN978-0-8065-2306-4